On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mikulas Patocka > <mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>> AFAIK you can't add a second CPU without an HP technician enabling the >>> firmware for a second CPU. >>> >>> The same goes for enabling additional PCI slots. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carlos. >> >> And is there some hack that enables it? >> >> It looks quite dishonest to me when the machine is advertised as capable >> of two dual-core CPUs, 32GB RAM, 4 PCI-X slots ... and you get this >> advertised capability only if you buy expensive support contract :-( > > I know of no hack. > > It is not dishonest, the original purchase contract for the machine > probably said "1 active CPU slot" and "1 active PCI-X slot." > > Cheers, > Carlos. It _is_ dishonest, and deceptive at that. When was the last time you bought a multisocket system and couldn't add a second processor because you needed a support contract? I've never encountered such a thing and I've got multisocket x86, Alpha, and SPARC systems. This whole license-to-use-hardware thing is bullshit. Mikulas bought the hardware, and thus he should be able to use it. I'm struggling to find any information about this problem online. I can't even find anyone else who has reported that adding a second CPU doesn't just work. Are we absolutely sure you've got to jump through some licensing bullshit to enable the CPU? Maybe it's just a missed setting in PDC? > The same goes for enabling additional PCI slots. You've got to be kidding me. I'd been planning to grab a cheap C8000 and help Linux/PARISC. But no. I'll never use hardware like this on principle. Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
